Our Safety Initiatives
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Top 10 Tips To Keep Your Store Safe This Festive Season
While many of us see the festive season as a time to kick back and relax, for the retail sector it is the busiest time of the year. With high volumes of high-value stock, seasonal staff and more capital flowing through our premises than any other time of the year staying safe is a definite…
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How to Prepare Your Property For the Festive Season
Here are our top tips to keep your property safe so you can enjoy the festive season
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Seeing To Your Safety
Update On Our CCTV Camera Network Crime is a sombre reality in South Africa that costs us dearly. Emotionally, living in fear drains us and financially, unplanned expenses due to theft can leave us grasping at straws. To do our part in creating a safer space for us all to share we are expanding and…
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Some of the Public Safety Incidents in Maitland this Month
Assault On 4 February at about 00h36 in the morning an assault was witnessed in Camden Road, where a person from Garden Village was assaulted as he left Tiffany’s Night Club. The injured person was taken to Groote Schuur Hospital by ambulance (see photos). Arrested in possession of stolen property On 6 February at the Camp Road public parking…
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Maitland CID’s focus on public safety
For the Maitland City Improvement District public safety is a major concern. A large portion of the bi-monthly board meeting is usually devoted on discussing safety reports and advise on strategies to improve the general situation. However, during general patrols the safety and security team main will not only be busy with the identification of…
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It’s all in the bag
From copper cables, scrap metal, electronic equipment, drugs to even melted aluminium found after the recent veld fires in Tokai were amongst things confiscated from suspected people in the Maitland CID area over the past three months. Here are some of the scrap metal found in bags being searched by the Maitland CID’s team of…
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Social challenges
The Maitland CID’s team of public safety officers faces ongoing challenges with vagrants and homeless people that need to be redirected to shelters for safety. During the past three months the team had to deal with a number of incidents of substance abuse amongst children and adults. Amongst these were a case of a 15-year…
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Security Advisory: Safety Precautions on N2 Freeway
Dear property and business owners. Please take note of the attached security advisory regarding safety precautions on the N2 Freeway, especially near the Cape Town International Airport. To read the full document please click here.
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Law Enforcement Joins the Maitland CID
Through the very kind assistance of the local ward councillor, Councillor Derrick America, the Maitland CID now has the assistance of two Law Enforcement Officers every day. The officers assist the Maitland CID in addressing By-law and non-moving violations in the area, thereby maintaining a high standard of public safety in the Maitland CID area.